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Changing Cron Times - any issues?
Hi,
I need to adjust my cron times due to the length of time it takes to TKLBAM changes to a file system.
Essentially I want to kick things off at about 9PM rather than the 6 am that daily, weekly and monthly cron jobs are set for.
This isn't a question of how to do this but of will this affect anything? - updates, patches etc.
I have modified cron times before without issue but that was a familiar system (Ubuntu). I am aware these images are based on Ubuntu but there are several changes and hey it does not hurt to ask.
Replies (3)
I don't think it would have a negative impact on anything but
Reply 1Good Idea
Reply 2I might just do that.
I tried the 9pm thing as a test anyway.
Lets see what happens.
Yeah I wouldn't think it'd matter
Reply 3But sounds like you'll find out for sure soon enough! :)
I don't think it would have a negative impact on anything but if it were up to me I would choose to only change the tklbam backup time. I'd move the /etc/cron.daily/tklbam-backup script somewhere else like /root/tklbam-backup so cron won't automatically run it. Then just add a line to /etc/crontab that calls the tklbam-backup script for whatever time you want.